Frank Dukes is credited with additional production on "Loveless" only. 896.6k Followers, 277 Following, 6,791 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from OKLM (@oklm) The drum solo used as the transition instrument linking "Hard Feelings" to "Loveless" was sampled from Phil Collins' 1981 song "In the Air Tonight". Khalid, Post Malone & SZA] – Single", "Lorde announces world tour including UK and Europe dates", "Lorde Sets North American Leg of Melodrama World Tour", "Lorde Earns First No. "[17] She cites her "love of theater" and drawing parallels to Greek tragedies as inspiration for the album's title. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart With 'Melodrama, "Lorde's 'Melodrama' has short reign at top of the US charts, falling to No. She cites the emotional vocals of Kate Bush and Sinéad O'Connor, as well as Laurie Anderson's use of vocoder as inspiration for her vocal delivery on the album. [59] The album was leaked online one day prior to release. On February 27, 2017, a mysterious commercial aired throughout New Zealand. While her earlier music focused on criticizing fame and the “pop star” culture, she grew into it more with her second album while keeping the superb writing she’s known for. Lorde later visited McKinniss' studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where she took a liking to a full-figure portrait of the cover photograph of Prince's 1984 album Purple Rain and a painting of Lil' Kim. Tatiano Cirisano, writing for the latter publication, said McKinniss "perfectly communicates the intimacy and coming-of-age storyline" of the record with its "hazy twilight hues and bedside setting". Lorde promoted the album through several music festivals she headlined, and the Melodrama World Tour in 2017 and 2018. [45] Most of the song was constructed using drums, whereas "blanks" were later "filled" with piano sequences. Melodrama was finally released in June 2017, about four years after Pure Heroine, and was critically acclaimed immediately after its release. [11] She also began posting pictures of herself at Electric Lady Studios in New York City with Jack Antonoff on social media taken in and after December 2015. [19] The unused painting was later revealed in an interview with McKinniss for Dazed. [39] The singer was inspired to write "Supercut" after driving through Ponsonby Road in Auckland in a taxi listening to Simon's album Graceland. Melodrama received widespread acclaim from contemporary critics and featured on various year-end and decade-end lists. The single and video were further teased through her Twitter, and website imwaitingforit.com. 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[76] The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) awarded the album a gold certification, which denotes 500,000 units in consumption. Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor (b. November 7, 1996), better known by her stage name Lorde, is a pop star hailing from New Zealand. Credits adapted from the liner notes of Melodrama.[203]. [34], The album's lyrics are about heartbreak and solitude. [2] Later in 2014, Lionsgate announced that Lorde would curate the soundtrack for the third installment of The Hunger Games franchise, which would be followed by the release of the film's lead single "Yellow Flicker Beat" to critical acclaim. We're All Just Living in It", "American single certifications – Lorde – Green Light", "Lorde Drops Surprise New Single 'Perfect Places' From Her Upcoming Sophomore Album", "Lorde makes live comeback with dazzling performance on SNL — watch", "Lorde unveils new track 'Liability', along with a release date for 'Melodrama, "Hear Lorde's New Existential Party Anthem 'Perfect Places, "Lorde had the flu. Log In. [54] The first two lines of "Loveless" were sampled from a documentary about Paul Simon's album Graceland Lorde watched. "[90] Pitchfork writer Stacey Anderson concluded that it was "a sleek and humid pop record full of grief and hedonism, crafted with the utmost care and wisdom. The tour began at the O2 Apollo Manchester in England on 26 September 2017 and ended on 19 October 2017 in Trondheim, Norway. [87], Alexis Petridis of The Guardian suggested that the record was a "cocky challenge being issued to her musical contemporaries. [41] It was described by critics as an electropop,[42] dance-pop,[43] and post-disco song. [45], The first part of the medley song "Hard Feelings/Loveless" uses a distorted synthesizer and elements of industrial,[51] noise[52] and electronica genres. [70] Her decision not to sing came after she was diagnosed with influenza. [16] She did, however, call "Green Light" a traditional break-up song. Castlevania: Bloodlines (1993) The gothic-themed Castlevania games have always featured a wide assortment of iconic scary figures, from Frankenstein to the Grim Reaper to primary antagonist Dracula. Pure Heroine is the debut studio album by New Zealand singer-songwriter Lorde, which was released through Universal, Lava, and Republic Records on 27 September 2013. [95] Rolling Stone's Will Hermes lauded its production, labeling it a "tour de force. All tracks are written by Lorde (Ella Yelich-O'Connor) and Jack Antonoff, except where noted. [28] According to NME, different personae of Lorde, ranging from the "strong, composed young woman" to the hidden "psycho", are showcased through her vocal performances on the album. Europeans’ estrangement of western film tropes would help spur a revisionist take on the standards of the genre that infuses films produced to this day. [22] Paste ranked it at number 11 in their year-end list for album covers,[23] and it also appeared on Billboard's unranked list. Pure Heroine is Lorde’s debut studio album. The pair agreed to meet and started discussing a collaboration. [74], On the US Billboard 200, Melodrama debuted at number one with first-week sales of 109,000 album-equivalent units, of which 82,000 were pure sales, becoming Lorde's first number one in the United States. 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In December 2013, Lorde announced that she had begun writing material for an upcoming second studio album. Connect with friends and the world around you on Facebook. [49] She said that the production process was "exciting", stating, "I can use guitars and I can get a big gnarly Flume beat and throw it under water. After several unsuccessful sessions with songwriters, Lorde was paired with Joel Little by A&R representative Scott Maclachlan, who assisted with the album's production. It won a New Zealand Music Award for Album of the Year, and received a nomination for Album of the Year at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards in 2018. [15] The singer also travelled by helicopter to a rental house on Waiheke Island, where she could write without distractions,[16] would continue working through "false starts, fruitless detours and stretches of inactivity" as she retreated from the public spotlight. [9] Lorde eventually replied to a comment on her Instagram account in late August 2016 that she completed the writing process of Melodrama — still untitled at the time — and that she was in the production stages. 24 Lorde Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor, better known by her stage name Lorde, is a New Zealand singer-songwriter. [105] At the 60th Annual Grammy Awards in 2018, it was nominated for Album of the Year, which went to Bruno Mars' 24K Magic (2016). For the album shoot, Lorde wore a vintage negligee and posed for two hours. More than a year later, he reported that even though he had written a few songs for the album, he would not serve as an executive producer, attributing this to Lorde "trying to do something different". [73] The Oceania leg consisted of 13 dates. [60], On 2 March 2017, Lorde released "Green Light" as the lead single from the album. While "Royals" is certainly a decade-defining anthem (Insider previously ranked it as the eighth best song of the 2010s), Lorde has only ascended to greater heights as a songwriter. "[52] Sal Cinquemani of Slant echoed Anderson's judgment, describing it as "cathartic, dramatic, and everything else you could want an album titled Melodrama to be". [83] It entered the UK Albums Chart at number five[84] and was certified gold in the United Kingdom. In them, the American West becomes an otherworldly wasteland of pure brutality and diminished—rather than heightened—agency. LibriVox is a hope, an experiment, and a question: can the net harness a bunch of volunteers to help bring books in the public domain to life through podcasting? Lorde worked on Melodrama in Antonoff's Rough Customer Studios in New York City and at her home in New Zealand. [17] According to Lorde, she had to deal with "very serious, vivid feelings" she needed to express after experiencing her first heartbreak and moving out of her parents' home; as a result, she spent time isolated in her own house. [100] Regarding reception from music audiences, Rolling Stone readers voted Melodrama the second most popular album of 2017,[101] while Pitchfork readers voted it the tenth greatest album of the 2010s, the highest position for a female artist's album on the list. [27], Lorde first promoted the album by posting a link to a website called imwaitingforit.com to her Twitter account on 27 February 2017. Lorde wanted to showcase contrast, going from "big and grand" to "really tiny and intimate", as well as desired to reference personal events, headlines and themes associated with the World Wide Web. [16] She drew inspiration from Paul Simon's 1986 album Graceland, describing it as "enlightenment after love lost". [72] To further promote the album, Lorde embarked on a world tour with several opening acts; she announced the tour in June 2017. [53] Antonoff said one of his proudest moments while producing the album was the placing of a "synth at the end [of the song] that sounds like metal bending". The casual grandeur of Garth Greenwell’s prose, unfurling in page-long paragraphs and elegantly garrulous sentences, tempts the vulnerable reader … Genius Loves Company shouldn’t have won, but the posthumous bump for Ray Charles makes sense. [31] The singer took a classicist approach, usually composing a melody and then trying different vocal falsettos; Lorde said that because of this, the whole album can be played in acoustic form. The song was covered by Lorde for the Hunger Games: Catching Fire soundtrack, which was released by Republic. [68] The following week, "Sober" was announced as the album's second promotional single. [16] The diner usually played Top 40 radio, which she said would occasionally distract her from writing, although she sometimes removed her headphones to let the songs "wash over" her. Lorde asked McKinniss to create a painting with a "kind of colorful teenage restlessness and excitement and energy and potential". [94], Nolan Feeney of Entertainment Weekly awarded the album an A and commended her songwriting skills, describing the album as a "puzzle that’ll keep you busy long after the party is over. [18], McKinniss and Lorde met in November 2016 at his friend's studio on the 42nd floor of Frank Gehry's 8 Spruce Street skyscraper,[19] which consisted of coloured bulbs on a lighting rig and a space with several windows. [10], The singer went on to announce the album's title on 2 March 2017. She first became a figure on the international scene with her debut EP The Love Club but didn’t start to blow up until her song “Royals” reached #1 on charts worldwide, including the US. [20] The pair considered making the photography session "operatic" and pre-Raphaelite-inspired, but scrapped the idea because they were satisfied with Lorde's facial expressions on the resulting images. She reworked Tears for Fears' tune into a haunting dirge, bringing out its inherent darkness. [3], In an interview with Australia's Triple J radio network in February 2015, Joel Little, who produced Pure Heroine, said he was scheduled to join Lorde for a writing session in a recording studio the following month,[4] although a definite plan was not yet established. [21], NME placed the cover on their list of the best album artworks of the 21st century so far. [25], Lorde's vocals on Melodrama have been noted for her emotional and multitrack delivery. It showed Lorde sipping soda before abruptly cutting to a date that said “3.2.17 NYC, 3.3.17 NZ.” This turned out to be the release date for “Green Light,” the lead single from her long-anticipated sophomore album, Melodrama. [102], The album won a New Zealand Music Award for Album of the Year,[103] and received nominations at the ARIA Music Awards[104] and the NME Awards. "[50] According to Newsweek, the singer's cadence in some lines almost turns into rapping, which was compared with cross-genre music. While her earlier music focused on criticizing [16] Interviewed by the publication, Lorde says Melodrama is not simply a "breakup album" but is rather a "record about being alone", featuring both the favourable and unfavourable aspects associated with "heartbreak and solitude". [12] Lorde was inspired to write "The Louvre" after listening to Frank Ocean's 2016 album Blonde. Initially inspired by her disillusionment with fame, she wrote Melodrama to capture heartbreak and solitude after her first breakup. 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She considered turning "Liability (Reprise)" into an a cappella track before deciding to "be sensible" and adding a backing beat. [6], In January 2016, The New Zealand Herald reported that Lorde and James Lowe, her boyfriend, had ended their three-year relationship. She also took inspiration from strangers' conversations, often hearing certain phrases that she would think about for hours. [14], Lorde said that during the early stages of writing content for Melodrama, she imagined writing the album from the perspective of aliens stepping outside a hermetically sealed environment for the first time, citing the 1950 science fiction short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury as an inspiration. [45] It features an interpolation of a piano riff used in "Green Light". In 2020, Melodrama ranked at number 460 on Rolling Stone's revision of their 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list. Kuk Harrell is credited with vocal production on the first verse of "Green Light" only. The songs "Green Light", "Perfect Places", and "Homemade Dynamite" were released as singles. The album was Lorde's first number one in the United States and Canada, and also peaked atop the charts in Australia and New Zealand. [75] The album dropped to number 13 the following week. Though it may be slight bias because I'm from New Zealand, I don't believe she is overrated. [36] Lorde has stated that the record has only a loose narrative;[37] it follows the framework of a single house party, and the events and moods that ensue. "[96] Writing for Spin, Anna Gaca quipped that Melodrama "embodies a strange, studious undoneness, the blacklight black-and-blue of a perfectionist trying to capture imperfect feelings". [61] The single was universally praised by critics, with many publications placing it in their year-end lists,[62] and was recognized as NME's Single of the Year. Further recording sessions took place at Antonoff's home studio in Brooklyn Heights, dubbed Rough Customer Studio, and Jungle City in New York City, as well as Westlake and Conway in Los Angeles. [27] "Liability" is the first piano ballad on the album; in a profile with The Spinoff, Lorde said was inspired by the track "Higher" from Rihanna's 2016 album Anti, which she listened to when she took a taxi home from a hike. [15] Lorde also took notes from conversations with her friends and would fly multiple times between the United States and New Zealand to examine the world around her. [35] Though it has been denied by Lorde,[16] music critics have described Melodrama as a loose concept album. [56] Lorde wrote down the main theme of "Writer in the Dark" after waking up in the middle of the night in a stranger's bed, feeling naughty and empowered while doing so. [27], The following track, "Sober II (Melodrama)", a continuation of "Sober", details the emotions and sense of loneliness after a party is over. McKinniss made two paintings from his photographs; one featured a blue glow with a warm flush on Lorde's cheek and the other has different lighting, with "paler, sweeter" colours. Melodrama is the second studio album by New Zealand singer-songwriter Lorde. Learn everything an expat should know about managing finances in Germany, including bank accounts, paying taxes, getting insurance and investing. [5] Lorde was eventually featured on Disclosure's track "Magnets" which appears on the duo's 2015 album Caracal. [16], According to The New York Times, Melodrama is about a "grapple with emotions" in the aftermath of a break-up. Her decision came after other nominees, who were all male, were given the opportunity to perform by themselves.[107]. [48] It is the only song on which Antonoff is not credited as a songwriter or producer. Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor (b. November 7, 1996), better known by her stage name Lorde, is a pop star hailing from New Zealand. [27], The album's opening track, "Green Light", features titular metaphors; reviewers interpreted the "green light" as a street signal that gives the singer permission to move into the future. [1] The following year, she said it was in its early stages and that it was "totally different" from her debut album released earlier that year; she also said the shift in sound was due to the change in circumstances and settings of her life. [16], The cover artwork for Melodrama was painted by American abstract painter Sam McKinniss, with whom Lorde had communicated by email. [29], Melodrama is built around Antonoff's signature production, which incorporates drums, synths, layered vocals and straightforward hooks. 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